Word: malis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BOUND TO VIOLENCE, by Yambo Ouologuem. A young Mali novelist's exuberant mock epic of the bloody history of a real but imaginary African empire...
...savage-or less funny -than Anthony Hecht's couplet commentary on Aesop, the slave as moralist, should introduce this small masterpiece on man's ingenious cruelty to man. Yambo Ouologuem (pronounced Oo-o-lo-guem), born 30 years ago in the French Sudan, now the Republic of Mali, writes from the point of view of victim. But what a victim...
Suddenly the cast of thousands disappears. The brilliant-and clearly well-researched - pageant of 7½ centuries of "galloping inhumanity" (1202 to 1947) drastically slows its tempo. African Everyman becomes specific-one Raymond-Spartacus Kassoumi of a Nakem that increasingly resembles Mali. Nakem's black rulers have already decided that only slaves will be exposed to corrupt French schooling. Raymond comes of a slave family. He studies hard and, as his reward, ends up in Paris receiving an elite-and not so elite-education. To Ouologuem, Kassoumi is the ultimate sophistication of slavery: the black man imprinted with...
...youth." Calcutta and Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, have renamed streets for him. According to Tass, Indian students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin Soirées is reported to be "greatly popular with televiewers in Brazzaville," while in Paris, "thousands of excursionists" have visited the apartment on Rue Marie-Rose where Lenin once lived. Tass failed to note, however, that...